Government Information Awareness Website... tons of info on Govt Officials and programs.

[dahunan]

Taken from Slashdot.com

Government Information Awareness

Posted by michael on Friday July 04, @04:12PM
from the sauce-for-the-gander dept.
gbjbaanb writes "Wired News is reporting about the GIA, software inspired by the TIA program. 'Researchers at the MIT Media Lab unveiled the Government Information Awareness, or GIA, website Friday. Using applications developed at the Media Lab, GIA collects and collates information about government programs, plans and politicians from the general public and numerous online sources. Currently the database contains information on more than 3,000 public figures. The premise of GIA is that if the government has a right to know personal details about citizens, then citizens have a right to similar information about the government.'"

Here is the site
http://opengov.media.mit.edu/

 

[zantac]

site slashdotted?

 

[dahunan]

huh?

The darned MIT site takes awhile to load....is that what you are talking about?

 

[burnedout]

Heard about this site on the news yesterday. Could be interesting.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: burnedout
Heard about this site on the news yesterday. Could be interesting.

Yeah, I hope it develops into a great resource. Too bad the servers are so slow. I gave up trying to navigate.

Maybe it's a government plot to make us feel we have information at our fingertips and then they frustrate us by making it as slow as the beaurocracy.